What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son]… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise… — Steve Mann Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible… — Nessa Carey Copy Share Image
I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“is your brain on drugs.” I saw that image in the scorching nighttime sky. I heard the disembodied voice. But what I… — Scott Jurek Copy Share Image
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
So my brain started ticking and I bought all my books from a cookbook shop, Libraire Gourmand in Paris. I bought them… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact,… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“Plasticity” is the term neurologists use to describe the brain’s ability to change. Your brain grows new connections much as your biceps… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and… — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat… — Suzy Becker Copy Share Image
I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image